Japanese KNOPPIX is a laucher of "virtual appliance" for Debian and Ubuntu

[Kuniyasu Suzaki]

Dear,

Japanese KNOPPIX6.2DVD includes "OS Circular" which is a kind of "virtual appliance".
    http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/knoppix62DVD-en.html
OS Circular offers disk images of Debian and Ubuntu with LBCAS (LoopBack Content
Addressable Storage). It enables us to boot Debian or Ubuntu on KVM or KQEMU without installation.
The disk images of Debian and Ubuntu are updated weekly and allow to roll-back to previous images.
Please try. :-)

  http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/oscircular/
  Current Transferable OS (weekly updated)
    English Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic    20091109 -
    English Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty    20090508 - 20091030
    English Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid  20081107 - 20090501
    English Debian 5.0  Lenny     20081107 -

The deb packages are downloadable from following. You can install on your Debian or Ubuntu.
 binary
 http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/download/httpfusevm-scripts_0.1-8_all.deb
 http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/download/httpstoraged_1.2-1_i386.deb
 source
 http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/download/httpfusevm-script_0.1-8-src.zip
 http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/download/httpstoraged_1.2-1-src.zip

The optimization was presented at Linux Symposium 2009 (Montreal).
 Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, and Yoshihito Watanabe 
 "Effect of readahead and file system block reallocation for LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage)"
 http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-275-286.pdf

# Japanese KNOPPIX6.2DVD is customized by LCAT(Live CD Acceleration Tool kit) and makes quick boot.
# The YouTube Video shows it could boot 3 times faster than the original. It works for launcher of "virtual appliance".
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAd_dnY8ltI

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suzaki